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Deepfakes & Consent

What are the impacts of creating or sharing altered images without asking for consent?

As technology makes it increasingly easy to manipulate images, students need to understand the ethical dimensions of consent in digital spaces. This lesson explores how creating and sharing altered images without permission impacts trust, respect, and personal boundaries. By examining real scenarios, students develop critical thinking skills about digital consent that will help them make responsible choices as both creators and subjects of digital content.

Objectives

  • Understand what consent is and when to seek it
  • Reflect on how consent helps build positive relationships
  • Evaluate the impacts of creating or sharing altered images without consent

Vocabulary

Consent · Deepfake
Consent asking for and receiving permission before recording, sharing, or posting someone's personal information or images online
Deepfake artificially created images or videos of someone doing something they never did
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Time
20 mins.

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